Senior Storage Engineer

2134 Clarivate Spain, SLU; Barcelona; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation 30 days

Volunteer hours

Health insurance

Life & Disability insurance

Transport cards

Language classes

Central office Barcelona

Job summary

Clarivate is seeking a Senior Storage Engineer to join the Private Cloud Engineering team in Barcelona. You will design, operate, and continuously improve the enterprise storage infrastructure across data centers, supporting NFS and iSCSI, Linux, and VMware/KVM virtualization.

Expect hands-on administration, migrations, and disaster recovery in a multi-vendor environment. The role involves capacity planning, upgrades, and automation with Ansible, with hybrid office presence in Barcelona and core

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of infrastructure engineering experience, including hands-on administration of enterprise storage environments.
• 5+ years of SAN/NAS storage technologies experience in production environments.
• 5+ years of experience administering and troubleshooting enterprise storage using NFS and iSCSI, including host connectivity.
• 5+ years of experience supporting enterprise storage in Linux environments, including storage connectivity and multipathing.
• 5+ years of experience managing storage provisioning, capacity, performance, availability, upgrades, and lifecycle activities.
• Experience with storage infrastructure integrated with virtualization technologies such as VMware and/or KVM/libvirt/QEMU.
• Experience troubleshooting complex production issues across storage, Linux, virtualization, and network infrastructure.
• Experience with multiple enterprise storage platforms/vendors.
• Experience with storage migrations, upgrades, or technology refreshes.
• Experience automating storage operations using Ansible, scripting, or APIs.
• Experience with storage replication and disaster recovery.

Responsibilities

• Design, operate, and continuously improve enterprise storage infrastructure supporting the private cloud across multiple data centers.
• Manage and optimize SAN and NAS environments, including provisioning, capacity, performance, availability, upgrades, and lifecycle management.
• Administer and troubleshoot NFS and iSCSI services, Linux host connectivity, and multipathing.
• Support shared storage for VMware and KVM/libvirt/QEMU virtualization environments.
• Lead complex storage troubleshooting and root‑cause analysis across storage, Linux, virtualization, network, and application layers.
• Plan and execute storage migrations, upgrades, and technology refreshes with minimal disruption to production services.
• Automate storage operations using Ansible, scripting, and APIs, and support replication and disaster‑recovery activities.
• Work with infrastructure engineering teams and storage vendors on capacity planning, escalations, lifecycle management, and future storage architecture.

Skills

SAN/NAS storage technologies

NFS and iSCSI

Linux administration

VMware/KVM virtualization

Automation with Ansible

Disaster recovery

Root-cause analysis

Capacity planning

Multipathing

Vendor coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

VMware

KVM/libvirt/QEMU

NFS

iSCSI

Scripting (bash)

Ansible

Job description

We are looking for a Senior Storage Engineer to join our Private Cloud Engineering team in Barcelona. This is an exciting opportunity to design, operate and continuously improve the enterprise storage infrastructure supporting business-critical services across multiple data centers. You will work in a multi-vendor storage environment, supporting NFS and iSCSI services, Linux and virtualization platforms including VMware and KVM, while contributing to storage automation, migrations, disaster recovery and future architecture. We would love to speak with you if you have strong hands‑on experience administering enterprise storage in complex production environments.

About You – experience, education, skills, and accomplishments

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant work experience.
• At least 5 years of experience in infrastructure engineering, including hands‑on administration of enterprise storage environments.
• At least 5 years of experience working with SAN and NAS storage technologies in production environments.
• At least 5 years of experience administering and troubleshooting enterprise storage using NFS and iSCSI, including host connectivity.
• At least 5 years of experience supporting enterprise storage in Linux environments, including storage connectivity and multipathing.
• At least 5 years of experience managing storage provisioning, capacity, performance, availability, upgrades, and lifecycle activities.
• Experience supporting storage infrastructure integrated with virtualization technologies such as VMware and/or KVM/libvirt/QEMU.
• Experience troubleshooting complex production issues across storage, Linux, virtualization, and network infrastructure.
• It would be great if you also have . . . Experience working with multiple enterprise storage platforms/vendors.
• Experience with storage migrations, infrastructure upgrades, or technology refreshes.
• Experience automating storage operations using Ansible, scripting, or APIs.
• Experience with storage replication and disaster recovery.

What will you be doing in this role?

• Design, operate, and continuously improve enterprise storage infrastructure supporting the private cloud environment across multiple data centers.
• Manage and optimize SAN and NAS environments, including provisioning, capacity, performance, availability, upgrades, and lifecycle management.
• Administer and troubleshoot NFS and iSCSI services, Linux host connectivity, and multipathing.
• Support shared storage for VMware and KVM/libvirt/QEMU virtualization environments.
• Lead complex storage troubleshooting and root‑cause analysis across storage, Linux, virtualization, network, and application layers.
• Plan and execute storage migrations, upgrades, and technology refreshes with minimal disruption to production services.
• Automate storage operations using Ansible, scripting, and APIs, and support replication and disaster‑recovery activities.
• Work closely with infrastructure engineering teams and storage vendors on capacity planning, technical escalations, lifecycle management, and future storage architecture.

About the Team

The Private Cloud Engineering team is responsible for the infrastructure supporting our private cloud environment across multiple data centers. You will work alongside experienced infrastructure engineers, collaborating across storage, Linux, virtualization, and other infrastructure technologies to maintain reliable services and continuously improve our environment.

Hours of Work

This is a full-time permanent position, primarily working core business hours in CET time zone, with flexibility to adjust to various global time zones as needed and on‑calls system (maintenance work due to customer SLA requirements) This is a hybrid position working in the office up to 2 days a week.

What we can offer you:

• 30 working days of vacation
• Volunteering community offering paid hours of volunteering time
• Private Health and Life & Disability insurances.
• Tax‑free benefits (Ticket Restaurant scheme, kindergarten, and transport cards)
• Agile work environment with a team of talented colleagues
• Language classes (Catalan, Spanish and English)
• Digital workplace with possibility to work in a central office location in Barcelona with global and dynamic employees.

At Clarivate, we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all qualified persons with respect to hiring, compensation, promotion, training, and other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment. We comply with applicable laws and regulations governing non‑discrimination in all locations.

Clarivate is a global leader in trusted and transformative intelligence. We bring together enriched data, insights, analytics and workflow solutions, grounded in deep domain expertise across the spectrum of knowledge, research and innovation. Whether it’s providing insights to transform the water industry or accelerating the delivery of a critical vaccine, our aim is to fuel the world’s greatest breakthroughs by harnessing the power of human ingenuity.

For more information, please visit clarivate.com